Abstract: Death education has aroused heated discussion in education, psychology, ethics and other disciplines, and has been well developed in theory and practice in Western countries. With its widely disseminated, death education has gradually attracted the attention of domestic scholars. More and more scholars pay attention to and realize the significance of death education in theory and social practice, yet the death education system is relatively weak in China. Using questionnaires as basic methods and medical students in Beijing as research object, this paper analyzes medical students^, death education demands in medical university, explores the proposed measures for the curriculum of death education, makes recommendations for courses, and discusses the importance of death education for the development of hospice care.

Key words: medical students, death education, demands, curriculum